Good News Series 4
Series 4 of Good News starts TONIGHT! Unfortunately we are not going to be blogging on here throughout the series this time but we still want you to keep sending us in your stories. You can follow the show on Twitter so tweet us anything you find you think should be on the next episode.
Enjoy the series!
Team Good News x
Russell Howard's Good News Thursday 22.30 大象传媒 Three
Preview clips will be published on the programme page.
Check the Comedy Blog for further updates
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At 24th Mar 2011, Tiggy1991 wrote:Yay first comment!!
Cant wait for tonight I need my Good News Fix!!
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At 24th Mar 2011, Simon wrote:NOOOOO!!!!! Why aren't you going to be blogging on here??? It's so much easier to find stuff if it's on a blog! I hope you change your mind on this! I really like the blog, and I'll miss it! :'(
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At 24th Mar 2011, kkthecyberpanda wrote:Aww, sadness!
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At 24th Mar 2011, Josie Russell wrote:As much as I am excited about the show returning, I have one question for you- WHY U NO BLOG????? :L
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At 24th Mar 2011, ClareDee wrote:THANK GOD!!!
been waiting for AGES :)
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At 24th Mar 2011, Sinead wrote:I cannot wait till tonight :D Been toooo long!!! Coming to see you in a few weeks, will be great as usual :) very exciting...bit sad bout the blogging though :S ahh well, long as the show goes ahead thats all that matters :P x
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At 24th Mar 2011, Stacey wrote:Wooo :D Get In !!! ;) *Records it on sky* (Russell x Hope You got the birthday card i sent you, the one with random notes in) :/
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At 24th Mar 2011, Elli McIntyre wrote:woo cant wait :DD
awwwww you can't stop doing the blogs they are great. please don't stop them :) xx
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At 24th Mar 2011, TAZ3690 wrote:No Fair! *HAS A TANTRUM* I love the blogs but i love the show more ^^
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At 24th Mar 2011, Craig Tyler wrote:This guy thinks he's a transformer:
Hahahaha:
A good news story:
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At 25th Mar 2011, OliviaTheDragon wrote:Why no blog? The blog is epic...anyway Good News was brilliant tonight....as always :D
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At 25th Mar 2011, aviddiva wrote:The silly American girl who moaned about the Japanese students ringing on their mobile phones about this 'tsunami THING' should replace Brian True-May as producer on Midsomer Murders as she's equally as clueless.
I just knew Sky News putting the surfing ad on in the break would get on!
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At 25th Mar 2011, Josie Russell wrote:I saw this title, and I straight away though "Good News" :D -
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At 26th Mar 2011, Maryam wrote:'Don't steal computers belonging to people who know how to use computers'
the video-
info about the video-
the owner of the stolen laptop hacked into his own laptop and found video of the theif dancing and uploaded it to youtube
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At 27th Mar 2011, keyser soze wrote:Aww the blog is epic!!! The show on thursday was gooooood!!
I saw right here Right now in Glasgow it was AMAZING I LOVED IT!!!!
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At 28th Mar 2011, Andrew-James wrote:Hey Russell,
Just wanted to tell you about a part of 大象传媒 Breakfast Today, Susanna Reid said "I Haven't Got a Software Bug?"
Can't Wait for the show!
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At 28th Mar 2011, Dr-dogs wrote:I can't wait for the new material, where do we submit new stories?
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At 28th Mar 2011, ClareDee wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I didn't follow the blog for the other last series... I'm proper gutted :(
please please please blog for this series x
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At 28th Mar 2011, OliviaTheDragon wrote:Hey Russ :) I found a few stories for you :)
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At 28th Mar 2011, Dr-dogs wrote:And then there was the guy who freaked out about the price increase of his fav burito:
Food price inflation leads to gun waving? ;-)
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At 28th Mar 2011, Sinead wrote:Hey Russ!
Loved the first show...keep 'em coming :)
Here's a clip me and my friends thought was quite funny!
Hope you like
x
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At 31st Mar 2011, sarah-strachan wrote:ive got a brill story for good news鈥 it was featured in the sun on march 19th page 39 about alittle autistic boy who is almost 4 but cant speak and his mum (24) tought him sign language and after a long time he finally signed I LOVE YOU to her, its such a lovely story if you look it up really heart warming, the telegraph also covered it the following monday and i think the daily mail 2!!! really beautiful!! CHECK IT OUT for 鈥渒ids鈥 or the its not all doom and gloom bit, also his mum is cutting all her hair off for charity to make a wig for kids with cancer!!! i think its a great story, perfect concidering its mothers day in afew days who wouldnt love to hear about this :)
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At 31st Mar 2011, sarah-strachan wrote:ive got a brill story for good news鈥 it was featured in the sun on march 19th page 39 about alittle autistic boy who is almost 4 but cant speak and his mum (24) tought him sign language and after a long time he finally signed I LOVE YOU to her, its such a lovely story if you look it up really heart warming, the telegraph also covered it the following monday and i think the daily mail 2!!! really beautiful!! CHECK IT OUT for 鈥渒ids鈥 or the its not all doom and gloom bit, also his mum is cutting all her hair off for charity to make a wig for kids with cancer!!!
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At 1st Apr 2011, AngelaCharlotteLaura wrote:Epic find: 大象传媒 Breakfast news on Monday 21st March, talking about Twitter's 5th birthday the presenter (Suzanna?) accidentally calls it a 'micro-dogging' not 'micro-blogging' website. Would make a classic Good News sketch!
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At 2nd Apr 2011, iamnosuperman wrote:Great series so far but there is one thing missing..........Bring back shocked cat. The show is not the same without the shocked cat
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At 2nd Apr 2011, Diablo666Daemon666 wrote:Shocked cat, scared mouse, creepy weirdo....i miss those.
PLEASE RUSSELL, INCLUDE THIS STORY FROM MY LOCAL NEWSPAPER!!!!
Jack Russell dog in local Butchers FREEZER! I thought only Koreans ate dog???
Thank you for making such a good show!
Daryl McGarry
www.youtube.com/Diablo666Daemon666
www.Daemon-Central.Webs.com
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At 5th Apr 2011, londonguy78 wrote:Here's some good news... a royal wedding pool table, I reckon this one-ups the royal wedding toilet seat:
Maybe a section on all the crazy gear they are churning out?
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At 7th Apr 2011, Lucia wrote:/i/b0103x15/?t=13m57s
Segment on Reporting Scotland 6.30pm news - 6th April - from 13mins 57 secs in
about how we should eat grey squirrels to help protect the red squirrel population
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At 15th Apr 2011, taker1 wrote:Great series as always Russell! this story is perfect for the show in my opinion, it's I lile about 5 minutes from where the poster was and I couldn't believe they thought it was a good idea!
Kelly S
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At 15th Apr 2011, Becciebob wrote:Hi Russell
Here is a rap about Kate Middleton planning her wedding! Very funny!
I thought this would be great for next weeks show or the week after as we're getting closer to the royal wedding!
From Beccie :D
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At 15th Apr 2011, Lauren Macrae wrote:heyy dont know if this is where i should be putting this for russell to read but i found this hilarious and think russell could make it even more funnier !!
thanks xxxxx
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At 15th Apr 2011, sarah Davies wrote:Look at the story for the 9 stone dog its hilarious, it weighs more than me and my brother put together!
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At 16th Apr 2011, Sam wrote:Hi Team
maybe this is a genuine good news story that could be included at the end of the show?
It's about a girl born with significant disabilities from birth as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster - she was separated from her mother as an infant shortly after but was adopted and brought up by a british family. Mother and child thought they would never see each other again but this is the story of how her birth mother found her and spent a week together in the UK where the mother also found out for the first time her daughter now had a loving brother too:
Sam
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At 17th Apr 2011, Thomas findlay wrote:I think for your next show he should have his brother as stand up on saterday night for a laugh he could talk about his too small condom
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At 18th Apr 2011, Stacey wrote:Hey Russ Love Your Show. I Watch It Every Week :)
I Found This Its about
Scientists that have hopefully made a cure for cancer x
From Stacey Age 15 :)
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At 19th Apr 2011, Stacey wrote:Just thought id show you that.. made me laugh so much :'') (u might of shown it on a show but i cant remember) :L xx
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At 26th Apr 2011, shaneyyyyyy wrote:Hi Russel i think i have a good story idea for the its not all doom and gloom section.
I read in the paper about Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes from TLC. This year was the 9th anniversary of her death and i read that she died when in the middle of making a youth center for poor and homeless children in Honduras south America. Even thou she has been dead for 9 years her charity The Lisa lopes foundation has still been helping poor children and families all throughout the world and also built the school in Honduras. Left eyes money from her music career also went to building the school and much of her money has been donated to numerous charity's including the sickle cell anemia charity.
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At 29th Apr 2011, m wrote:Russell always talks about his brother in the shows, he should bring his brother in on episode :D
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At 1st May 2011, CrushedLily wrote:Heh...just thought if you want a funny song for the show, check out Witch Doctor by Cartoons:-
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At 1st May 2011, Lisa Cadman wrote:Hey Russell, was it just me or did you also notice during the Royal Wedding, that when Catherine and William were sat down and the camera kept pointing at them during the songs and the speeches that Prince William kept playing thumb wars by himself while sat there? lol
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At 3rd May 2011, Jonas wrote:Catch it, Kill it, Bin Laden it...
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At 4th May 2011, Eleanor wrote:Because cats are hilarious:
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At 7th May 2011, Tom Rees wrote:Hi Russell I saw this on you tube and I thought it would make good for a its not all doom and gloom piece It is about a guy call Jesse Billauer he was paralysed In an accident in the waves and now he has set up a charity called life rolls on trying to disabled people into the water as a way to over come their disability.
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At 13th Jul 2011, Tom_McDermott wrote:Russell, I'm not sure if you CAN use this story or not but I know it definately made me laugh. It was in today's (13th July) Metro.
Apparently an armed robber in Russia was taken down by a female shop owner and then held and used as a sex slave for 3 days. Then when she let him go, he reported it and they were both arrested.
I hope you can use this as I think it's hilarious.
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At 18th Oct 2011, ironman69 wrote:Plastic bott;es become lighting for the poor in south east asia
Hi russell i saw this and thought you might like to have it on the next show as some good news
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At 24th Oct 2011, hattie4444 wrote:i think this video would be perfect for good news its a video from the tropfest (short film festival in australia) its so simple and beautiful and will touch many of peoples hearts especially as cancer is a major thing in the UK it shows the strong power of love and family and how we should tell people what they mean to us befor there gone. i kno you prob wont even look at it but trust me its worth it at least just concider it please
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At 3rd Nov 2011, life_is_life wrote:funny as!!
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At 5th Nov 2011, Tom wrote:Not a really a news story but still quite a funny picture
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At 7th Nov 2011, little_miss_sunshine wrote:(you've probably seen this, but the two boys at the end are priceless!) :)
and:
love the way this cat looks when he gets caught!
also:
for 'it's not all doom and gloom':
the autistic basketball superstar :)
enjoy!
x
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At 21st Nov 2011, CrushedLily wrote:*insert witty comment about liking show*
Cobra Cat. Apparently.
Blonde on an escalator. I despair for humanity.
And since Harry Potter rocks - and so do Ron/Harry, here's Brokeback Mountain and If I Were Gay... :P
Mostly the ending:
Knock yourselves out. Or not. I'm off to scrub my brain with bleach. :/
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At 1st Dec 2011, wagofwags wrote:I bite people and i believe that monsters live under my bed.....someone help!
And i iz a lol master ...LOL
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At 3rd Dec 2011, Itzmagic99 wrote:You have to watch this:
Youtube-Chihuahua bailando waka waka
So funny :)
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At 8th Dec 2011, JOANNE wrote:i love russell howard I want a Russell howard for christmas
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At 9th Dec 2011, Annie wrote:hey everyone, I don't know if it was shown this series or not but apparently there was a boy called Callum Curry/Currie who fell into concrete or something?
Could someone post a link to it or tell me which series and episode it is. Thanks.
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At 16th Dec 2011, Jade wrote:Hey I have just started volunteering recently and i think that they place i go would be a great for the it's not all doom and gloom for then end of the show. Check it out it's a great story.
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At 16th Dec 2011, hello_peepz wrote:Just watched your show in my science lesson at school today and everyone loved it. I'm pretty sure that if someone said "Russell Howard isn't even funny!" in my class, they would be immediately kicked out of the school and disowned by their family and friend! Better to keep quiet...
Can't wait to watch the next series in science when I get back to school after Christmas break! Merry Christmas and a happy New year!
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At 8th Jan 2012, qn4i wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 3rd Feb 2012, robert2391 wrote:heres a good news story i think you might like
Destructoid.com ran a story a couple months ago about a young man named Carlo whose friend, Michael John Mamaril, passed away a month before due to cancer aged only 22. Both were big fans of Borderlands, and so Carlo sent an email to Gearbox asking for a short eulogy to be read by one of the game's characters, Claptrap.
Gearbox not only followed up with the request, but they also decided to include Michael as a NPC in the upcoming Borderlands 2.
You can hear the eulogy read by Claptrap and read the original story at.
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At 5th Feb 2012, Josh wrote:Hi Russell, i got a picture i think you might like. Found this take-away with an unusual name on a holiday in france. Here's the link ;)
Make sure you look at the sign!
Thanks, Josh
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At 7th Feb 2012, Harry Hayfield wrote:What a good thing that the series is back as I have found a wonderful online video for a section on the economy or "It's not all bad". NEO Property is an estate agency on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia and in November of last year, they placed an online video advert about the property on YouTube which recieved 76,000 views and enabled the house to be sold in less than four weeks (and I can think you can see why)
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At 11th Feb 2012, Adam wrote:you need to watch this clip haha!
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At 25th Feb 2012, kelly wrote:Russell,get back on our screens! it says you are doing a series 6 of "good news" hopefully its true and if so I cant wait ! your stand-up is brilliant and loads of people enjoy your programme!
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At 16th Mar 2012, span14 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 17th Mar 2012, robotmoth wrote:I鈥檓 writing to you because I have an amazing friend, doing something really inspiring, but who needs your support.
My friend Stuart intends to try and ride a motorbike over 170mph and break a land-speed record; he鈥檚 also disabled and totally blind.
Ten years ago an exceptionally talented, seasoned road & race biker cracked a few lame jokes with the paramedics trying to save his life.
A van jumping lanes at an Edinburgh junction ended up with half a biker through the sunroof & the other half through the windscreen.
After sliding down the van, hitting the ground & one futile attempt to crawl to his beloved bike (now spinning it's self to Australia) both halves of that biker were folded onto a board & taken to hospital.
That biker is my very good friend - Stuart Gunn, or 'T-Bone' as I have always, and loved him.
In the years following his accident, Stuart has proven to be as determined, driven & positive in recovery, as he ever was on a bike. He's showing people with disabilites (and abilities) jsut what they can do.
His intention to smash this world record simply reflects Stuart's approach to fundraising for four charities close to his heart.
Stuart will be riding in aid of the four charities and has support from the RNIB for his daring venture, but he鈥檚 looking for extra publicity, sponsorship, contacts for someone who can help find a suitable track, or anything else you can do to help him.
Read about the story here:
And here's the 'Raspberry Ripple Racing' website - for more info:
I thank you for reading and apprecciate your time.
Michelle
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At 18th Mar 2012, kelly wrote:Russell if you do another tour please come to Edinburgh :)
and we dinny all tlk like this up 'ere haha
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At 19th Mar 2012, AgataKowalio wrote:Add your comment hello russell. I just wanted to say few things to you. First of all your stories at the end of the show helped me get through todays operarion i had my toe nails taken out. Andi am very svared of seeing needles and blood. Im not going to explain how the operation works cos i dont want remeber. And maby you can visit aberrdeen one dday so i could meet you .. btw im a huge fan. Xoxo
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At 23rd Mar 2012, Jay Blayk wrote:I suppose this is where to post good news stories that should be known about,a friend of mine has suffered from annerexia since his mid teens, now he is age 18 and not only on the road to recovery but after the struggle him and his mum had to find help they haveset up a charity called noTED UK (no to eating disorders uk) to help local people to get through that sort of disorder and to campain to have a clinic put in the local area
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At 23rd Mar 2012, korney wrote:i think you should do 1 about kony check out the link please
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